It is pretty accurate in describing where I’m coming from although ‘Oxford’ does not mean that I live in Oxford or went to Oxford University, but I have worked for both Oxford and Oxford Brookes Universities in my capacity as an independent education consultant.

I live in Cumbria, UK and love walking on the Cumbrian fells.

I am also an active independent researcher. This is a Wordle of the Abstracts from my published papers, which again is surprisingly accurate. As far as possible I publish in open journals. I have listed my publications here on this blog. See Publications

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I’m a student from austria, and I’m currently working on my master thesis about social media and learning at higher education.

Unfortunately, I didn’t found any contact of you, so I try this way.🙂 I would like to ask you some questions if you just could contact me on my blog (http://meandsocialsoftware.wordpress.com/) or per mail (pia_r@gmx.at).

I’m sure you don’t remember me, but (I’m 99% sure) you were my year six teacher at St. Thomas’ School, Kendal in 1995-1996.

In the 16 years since then I read music at Cambridge and am now working at the Royal College of Music in London, where I teach students about new technology and help the College make use of it too.

I’m really pleased I’ve found your site, and I certainly have a lot of reading to do. Last year, both inspired by http://www.khanacademy.org and depressed by what seems to be a reduction in exposure to music education in the UK – I started an experiement at http://www.daveconservatoire.org, producing online videos and exercises. I’ve been really encouraged by the response and had around 4000 “students” in December.

I would be interested if you had any advice or feedback as I attempt to turn the site from a series of videos and exercises into something more dynamic and responsive to users. This is no replacement for a living breathing teacher, and I’m still experiementing with the right style for the teaching (I think I need to be much more informal and conversational), but I really see the value of (and enjoy!) producing resources like these for teachers to use or for those who aren’t fortunate enough to have access to one!

Hello David – Wow! What a blast from the past! I am so thrilled to hear from you and not at all surprised that you graduated from Cambridge, and very interested that you ended up choosing music.

I am this week in Chennai in India, so would rather wait till I get home in the middle of next week, before replying to you more fully. I would certainly be very interested to talk to you about your online work and discussing possible developments.

[…] (first steps in learning and teaching) run of Oxford Brookes University and partly organised by Jenny Mackness who has been involved in organising and thinking about MOOCs for sometime. As I made clear in the […]

Your blog looks very interesting. I am currently living and teaching in the UK and have started to use the internet to produce educational resources (I have been using moodle at school for a few years now). I have also just published a book called Introduction to Verbal Reasoning: Tips and Techniques.

Your son, Phin, kindly suggested that I contact you. I am glad he did, as I can see the wealth of knowledge that you have in online learning.

I am intrigued by what you are doing and I wonder how many other teachers are going down this route. I would love to know more about how you see the future of this kind of work. With all the recent developments in open courses and open educational resources, the flipped classroom and so on, many teachers must be wondering about how their careers might develop.

Congratulations on the publication of your book.

If I can help you in any way with what you are doing, please don’t hesitate to get in touch again. Phin would let you know how to contact me by email.

Jenny
Not sure where to post this but I thought of you re a post on CP2 when you were pondering the relationship between connected and social learning. I highlighted one sentence in the middle of the article that shed some light on the topic for me.

OK it won’t let me show highlight so here is the sentence: “Notions which place the self and the subject as the fundamental concerns of education become tenuous when we understand the self and discourse as non-separate entities” So, as you kind of inferred in that CP2 post, social learning related to discourse is one way to think about it.

[…] Jenny Mackness summarises the content of a talk given by Ian McGilchrist on the functions of the left and right hemispheres of the brain. In that she gives two quotations that caught my attention. The first is from McGilchrist’s book The Master and His Emissary […]

Hello Jenny,
My name is Maxine Griffiths AKA @now_teach_this. I am currently an AHT in Jersey and I have spent the last year tracking my journey as a connected educator, specifically on Twitter and its impact on my practice, I am currently studying for an MA in education which I am enjoying every second of. Twitter is the focus of my critical reflection, how it has affected my practice, my students and the community and my colleagues. Could I ask you how it effected you as an educationalists? What influence if any has it had on your Practice?
Kind regards
Maxine Griffiths
Jersey C I

[…] I’m going to do something I saw done really engagingly on someone else’s page yesterday in a slightly different context (snap! point #2 “started reading other people’s blog posts regularly and learnt a lot”). (Thankyou, Jenny Mackness, I loved this on your About page.) […]